Sexual and Marital metaphors in Hosea, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Ezekiel
Sharon Moughtin-Mumby
Abstract
This book considers the often unrecognised impact of different approaches to metaphor on readings of the prophtic sexual and marital metaphorical language. It outlines a practical and consciously simplified approach to metaphor, placing strong emphasis on the influence of literary context on metaphorical meaning. Drawing on this approach, Hosea 4-14, Jeremiah 2:1-4:4, Isaiah, Ezekiel 16 and 23, and Hosea 1-3 are examined with fresh eyes. The book reveals the way in which scholarship has repeatedly stifled the prophetic metaphorical language by reading it within the ‘default contexts’ of ‘the m ... More
Keywords: metaphor, prophetic sexual language, prophetic metaphorical language, Hosea 4-14, Jeremiah 2:1-4.4, Isaiah, Ezekiel 16, Ezekiel 23, Hosea 1-3
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2008 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199239085 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2008 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239085.001.0001 |
